Data is obtained from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This paper uses the 2005 Household Component data, which is downloadable from http://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files.jsp

Full data description is available at http://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/data_overview.jsp

Brief data description is available in the format statement of the SAS program.

For the data processing and the parametric estimation, the software used is SAS V 9.01. 
For the semiparametric estimation, the software used is GAUSS 9.0.

